Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount External USB cdrom on zfs

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Collins
iman habibi wrote: Dear support when i connect my external usb dvdrom to the sparc machine which has installed solaris 10u6 based zfs file system,,it return this error: Your ZFS question is? DVDs uue the HSFS filesystem. One good place for general Solaris questions is comp.unix.solaris. --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mount External USB cdrom on zfs

2009-01-27 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM, iman habibi iman.hab...@gmail.com wrote: Dear support when i connect my external usb dvdrom to the sparc machine which has installed solaris 10u6 based zfs file system,,it return this error: bash-3.00# mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 /dvd/ Jan 27 11:08:41 global

[zfs-discuss] freeze/ thaw zfs file system

2009-01-27 Thread ajit jain
Hi All, Can we freeze and thaw a zfs file-system either from user land (lockfs for ufs) or from the kernel space or through ioctl? Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, ajit ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeze/ thaw zfs file system

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ajit jain wrote: Hi All, Can we freeze and thaw a zfs file-system either from user land (lockfs for ufs) or from the kernel space or through ioctl? Can you step back a level and explain what you're trying to achieve? Freezing UFS is to get round ufs-specific issues which don't apply to

[zfs-discuss] Problems using ZFS on Smart Array P400

2009-01-27 Thread Alex
I am having trouble getting ZFS to behave as I would expect. I am using the HP driver (cpqary3) for the Smart Array P400 (in a HP Proliant DL385 G2) with 10k 2.5 146GB SAS drives. The drives appear correctly, however due to the controller not offering JBOD functionality I had to configure each

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems using ZFS on Smart Array P400

2009-01-27 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Alex a...@pancentric.com wrote: I am using the HP driver (cpqary3) for the Smart Array P400 (in a HP Proliant DL385 G2) with 10k 2.5 146GB SAS drives. The drives appear correctly, however due to the controller not offering JBOD functionality I had to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems using ZFS on Smart Array P400

2009-01-27 Thread Edmund White
I'm testing the same thing on a DL380 G5 with P400 controller. I set individual RAID 0 logical drives for each disk. I ended up with the same result upon drive removal. I'm looking into whether the hpacucli array command line utility will let me re-enable a logical drive from its interface. --

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-27 Thread Ben Miller
I forgot the pool that's having problems was recreated recently so it's already at zfs version 3. I just did a 'zfs upgrade -a' for another pool, but some of those filesystems failed since they are busy and couldn't be unmounted. # zfs upgrade -a cannot unmount '/var/mysql': Device busy cannot

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeze/ thaw zfs file system

2009-01-27 Thread ajit jain
Hi Andrew, I am writing a filtering device which tracks the write to the file-system. I am doing it for ufs, vxfs and for zfs. Sometime for consistent point I need to freeze the file-system which flushes dirty block to the disk and block every IO on the top level. So, for ufs and vxfs I got

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems using ZFS on Smart Array P400

2009-01-27 Thread Craig Morgan
You need to step back and appreciate that the manner in which you are presenting Solaris with disks is the problem and not necessarily ZFS. As your storage system is incapable of JBOD operation, you have decided to present each disk as a 'simple' RAID0 volume. Whilst this looks like a

[zfs-discuss] Crazy Problem with

2009-01-27 Thread Henri Meddox
Hi Folks, call me a lernen ;-) I got a crazy Problem with zpool list and the size of my pool: created zpool create raidz2 hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 - each hdd is about 1GB. zpool list shows me a size of 2.95GB - shouldn't this bis online 1GB? After creating a file about 500MB - Capacity is shown as 50 %

Re: [zfs-discuss] Crazy Problem with

2009-01-27 Thread Mika Borner
Henri Meddox wrote: Hi Folks, call me a lernen ;-) I got a crazy Problem with zpool list and the size of my pool: created zpool create raidz2 hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 - each hdd is about 1GB. zpool list shows me a size of 2.95GB - shouldn't this bis online 1GB? After creating a file about 500MB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Crazy Problem with

2009-01-27 Thread Mika Borner
Mika Borner wrote: You're lucky. Ben just wrote about it :-) http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1013 Oops, should have read your message completly :-) Anyway you can lernen something from it... ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems using ZFS on Smart Array P400

2009-01-27 Thread Edmund White
Given that I have lots of ProLiant equipment, are there any recommended controllers that would work in this situation? Is this an issue unique to the Smart Array controllers? If I do choose to use some level of hardware RAID on the existing Smart Array P400, what's the best way to use it with ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to fix zpool with corrupted disk?

2009-01-27 Thread Toby Thain
On 26-Jan-09, at 8:15 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: js == Jakov Sosic jso...@gmail.com writes: tt == Toby Thain t...@telegraphics.com.au writes: js Yes but that will do the complete resilvering, and I just want js to fix the corrupted blocks... :) tt What you are asking for is

[zfs-discuss] ? Changing storage pool serial number

2009-01-27 Thread Tim Thomas
Hi I took a look at the archives and I have seen a few threads about using array block level snapshots with ZFS and how we face the old issue that we used to see with logical volumes and unique IDs (quite correctly) stopping the same volume being presented twice to the same server. IHAC

Re: [zfs-discuss] ? Changing storage pool serial number

2009-01-27 Thread Jim Dunham
Hi Tim, I took a look at the archives and I have seen a few threads about using array block level snapshots with ZFS and how we face the old issue that we used to see with logical volumes and unique IDs (quite correctly) stopping the same volume being presented twice to the same server.

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeze/ thaw zfs file system

2009-01-27 Thread Richard Elling
ajit jain wrote: Hi Andrew, I am writing a filtering device which tracks the write to the file-system. I am doing it for ufs, vxfs and for zfs. Sometime for consistent point I need to freeze the file-system which flushes dirty block to the disk and block every IO on the top level. So, for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Crazy Problem with

2009-01-27 Thread Richard Elling
Henri Meddox wrote: Hi Folks, call me a lernen ;-) I got a crazy Problem with zpool list and the size of my pool: created zpool create raidz2 hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 - each hdd is about 1GB. zpool list shows me a size of 2.95GB - shouldn't this bis online 1GB? After creating a file about 500MB

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting assistan

2009-01-27 Thread Brad Hill
Any ideas on this? It looks like a potential bug to me, or there is something that I'm not seeing. Thanks again! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeze/ thaw zfs file system

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Ridd
On 27 Jan 2009, at 17:59, Richard Elling wrote: ajit jain wrote: Hi Andrew, I am writing a filtering device which tracks the write to the file-system. I am doing it for ufs, vxfs and for zfs. Sometime for consistent point I need to freeze the file-system which flushes dirty block to the

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and Amanda

2009-01-27 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello all, There is some project here to integrate amanda on opensolaris, or some howto for integration with ZFS? Some use case (using the opensource version)? The amanda site there is a few instructions, but i think here we can create something more specific to OS. Thanks. -- This message

[zfs-discuss] Import Issues Btw 101 104

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Templeton
Hi! I have a system with S10, b101, and b104 installed in the same partition on disk 1. On disks 1 and 2 in different partitions, I also created ZFS pools from S10 to be imported by b101 and b104. Pool 1 is mirrored. Pool 2 is not. About every three builds, I replace the oldest build with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting assistan

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Du
Do you know 7200.11 has firmware bugs? Go to seagate website to check. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to fix zpool with corrupted disk?

2009-01-27 Thread Jakov Sosic
Jakov Sosic wrote: Be happy, the data is already fixed. The DEGRADED state is used when too many errors were found in a short period of time, which one would use as an idicator of a failing device. However, since the evice is not actually failed, it is of no practical use in your test

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting assistance.

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
I guess you could try 'zpool import -f'. This is a pretty odd status, I think. I'm pretty sure raidz1 should survive a single disk failure. Perhaps a more knowledgeable list member can explain. On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Brad Hill b...@thosehills.com wrote: I've seen reports of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unable to destory a pool

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
Can you share the output of 'uname -a' and the disk controller you are using? On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ramesh Mudradi rameshm.ku...@gmail.com wrote: # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT jira-app-zpool 272G 330K 272G 0% ONLINE - The

[zfs-discuss] Can't add mirror half back to mirror after moving controllers

2009-01-27 Thread Brian Hechinger
In the previous config I had two RAID0 hardware stripes on an LSI1068 that were then mirrored together with ZFS. I then got a PERC 6/i card (aka LSI1078) to stick in the box and so I moved the one stripe over to that (and had to re-create the stripe of course). The problem is that once the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unusual CIFS write bursts

2009-01-27 Thread Richard Elling
comment far below... Brent Jones wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net wrote: While doing some performance testing on a pair of X4540's running snv_105, I noticed some odd behavior while using CIFS. I am copying a 6TB database file (yes, a single file)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Unusual CIFS write bursts

2009-01-27 Thread Brent Jones
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: comment far below... Brent Jones wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net wrote: -- Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net I found some insight to the behavior I found at this

[zfs-discuss] firewire card?

2009-01-27 Thread Frank Cusack
just installed s10_u6 with a root pool. i'm blown away. so now i want to attach my external storage via firewire. i could use usb2 but i prefer firewire as i won't need an external hub. what firewire cards are supported for x86? the HCL doesn't list any that i could find. i searched for any

Re: [zfs-discuss] firewire card?

2009-01-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote: what firewire cards are supported for x86? the HCL doesn't list any that i could find. i searched for any of the terms 'firewire', '1394', 'ohci', 'uhci', 'ehci'. The Sun Ultra-40 (recently discontinued) comes with dual 400Mbit firefire ports. See

Re: [zfs-discuss] firewire card?

2009-01-27 Thread James C. McPherson
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:01:55 -0600 (CST) Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote: what firewire cards are supported for x86? the HCL doesn't list any that i could find. i searched for any of the terms 'firewire', '1394', 'ohci',

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing HDD in x4500

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
I'm not an authority, but on my 'vanilla' filer, using the same controller chipset as the thumper, I've been in really good shape since moving to zfs boot in 10/08 and doing 'zpool upgrade' and 'zfs upgrade' to all my mirrors (3 3-way). I'd been having similar troubles to yours in the past. My

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing HDD in x4500

2009-01-27 Thread Jorgen Lundman
Thanks for your reply, While the savecore is working its way up the chain to (hopefully) Sun, the vendor asked us not to use it, so we moved x4500-02 to use x4500-04 and x4500-05. But perhaps moving to Sol 10 10/08 on x4500-02 when fixed is the way to go. The savecore had the usual info,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool status -x strangeness

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
What does 'zpool status -xv' show? On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Ben Miller mil...@eecis.udel.edu wrote: I forgot the pool that's having problems was recreated recently so it's already at zfs version 3. I just did a 'zfs upgrade -a' for another pool, but some of those filesystems failed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting

2009-01-27 Thread Brad Hill
r...@opensolaris:~# zpool import -f tank internal error: Bad exchange descriptor Abort (core dumped) Hoping someone has seen that before... the Google is seriously letting me down on that one. I guess you could try 'zpool import -f'. This is a pretty odd status, I think. I'm pretty sure

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing HDD in x4500

2009-01-27 Thread Tim
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Jorgen Lundman lund...@gmo.jp wrote: Thanks for your reply, While the savecore is working its way up the chain to (hopefully) Sun, the vendor asked us not to use it, so we moved x4500-02 to use x4500-04 and x4500-05. But perhaps moving to Sol 10 10/08 on

Re: [zfs-discuss] firewire card?

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Thurlow
Frank Cusack wrote: just installed s10_u6 with a root pool. i'm blown away. so now i want to attach my external storage via firewire. I was able to use this cheap thing with good initial results: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124002 However, I ran into a frequent

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting

2009-01-27 Thread Blake
This is outside the scope of my knowledge/experience. Maybe there is now a core file you can examine? That might help you at least see what's going on? On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Brad Hill b...@thosehills.com wrote: r...@opensolaris:~# zpool import -f tank internal error: Bad exchange

Re: [zfs-discuss] firewire card?

2009-01-27 Thread Frank Cusack
thanks for all the feedback. i guess i'll stick with usb2. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing HDD in x4500

2009-01-27 Thread Jorgen Lundman
I assume you've changed the failmode to continue already? http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/configuring-zfs-to-gracefully-deal-with-failures/ This appears to be new to 10/08, so that is another vote to upgrade. Also interesting that the default is wait, since it almost

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting assistan

2009-01-27 Thread Brad Hill
I do, thank you. The disk that went out sounds like it had a head crash or some such - loud clicking shortly after spin-up then it spins down and gives me nothing. BIOS doesn't even detect it properly to do a firmware update. Do you know 7200.11 has firmware bugs? Go to seagate website to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz1 faulted with single bad disk. Requesting

2009-01-27 Thread Ross
Just a thought, but have you physically disconnected the bad disk? It's not unheard of for a bad disk to cause problems with others. Failing that, it's the corrupted data bit that's worrying me, it sounds like you may have other corruption on the pool (always a risk with single parity raid),

[zfs-discuss] mount race condition?

2009-01-27 Thread Frank Cusack
i was wondering if you have a zfs filesystem that mounts in a subdir in another zfs filesystem, is there any problem with zfs finding them in the wrong order and then failing to mount correctly? say you have pool1/data which mounts on /data and pool2/foo which mounts on /data/subdir/foo, what if